Continuing the trend of reports recently leaked documenting decades of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, a new such report has appeared in the Netherlands. Just a few days ago, a leaked report implicated Catholic ...
A leaked report details 70 years of gross sexual abuse within the German Catholic church. The 350-page report highlights close to 4,000 cases of sexual abuse perpetrated by Catholic priests against minors. The report was ...
Spain’s modern-day liberal government continues to grapple with the country’s fascist past, a move opening deep divisions within the country. Deep divisions and old wounds in Spain have been opened by the Spanish government’s decision ...
The European Citizens’ Initiative is planning to ban the use of cages for farm birds and crates for farm animals in the EU. The legislation for the ban is to be introduced when one million ...
Last Thursday in the eastern German city of Chemnitz, thousands of far-right demonstrators chanted against the open door policy for refugees introduced by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2015. The xenophobic riot was sparked by ...
Ex-Papal Nuncio Carlo Maria Vigano published an 11-page testimony accusing Pope Francis of covering up clerical sexual abuses in the Catholic Church, and calling for the pope’s resignation. However, other Bishops have sided with Pope ...
Greece announced it has completed the three-year eurozone bailout program designated to help the country to overcome its debt crisis. For the first time in eight years, Greece is now free to borrow at market ...
In a reversal of recent policy, Italy has announced it will allow migrant rescue ships to dock at its ports, at least for the next five weeks. After a discussion between Italian Foreign Minister Enzo ...
Wildfires devastated multiple seaside suburbs of Athens on Monday, causing at least 81 casualties and leaving many others missing or hospitalized. After casting a heavy smoke over the Greek capital, the fires spread quickly through ...
On July 16, President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held talks in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The meeting was preceded by an indictment against 12 Russian spies for meddling in the 2016 ...
(FactCheck.org, by Lori Robertson, Eugene Kiely and Robert Farley) Russian President Vladimir Putin made several false and misleading claims during his press conference in Finland with President Donald Trump and in an interview with Fox News. Putin falsely claimed ...
A crowdfunded Trump Baby blimp floated in the London skies last week in protest of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trip to the U.K. The blimp was such a hit that more crowdfunding campaigns have sprung ...
Two Brits were walking in the street near their home and picked up a curious looking vial. Two weeks later, one of them was dead and the other fighting for his life. Dawn Sturgess, 44, ...
England’s Green party published a new report that showed that for the first time, England is about to burn more waste than it recycles. English authorities stated that energy from waste incineration tripled from 2010 t0 ...
On Monday, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson resigned from the cabinet of Prime Minister Theresa May. He was the third minister to quit his job within 24 hours. On Sunday, Minister of Brexit Affairs David ...
Italy’s interior minister is Europe’s answer to President Donald Trump with an even more hardline stance on immigration than his American counterpart. Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who took the position in June, said that he ...
Current judicial reform in Poland is sparking protests and causing an uproar throughout Poland. It has caused judges to say they have lost faith in the judicial system, with many saying the judicial changes are ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has surrendered to pressure from her party alliances and accepted a more restrictive immigration policy at the nation’s borders. This follows a week of tense internal negotiations with the German conservative ...
Last month, the U.S President Donald Trump sent sharply worded letters to member countries of NATO, demanding the increase in their defense spending. As the New York Times reported, Trump also threatened to “adjust” the ...
As statistics for the first quarter of 2018 come in, some shocking findings around homelessness and in particular child homelessness in the U.K. have come to light. Street sleeping has been on the increase for ...
As many as 154 organizations from 16 countries have urged The European Union (E.U.) to exclude Israel from bloc-funded research and development funding which the organizations claim is used to fund Israeli military initiatives, as ...
Last Friday, 14 members of the European Union (EU) said they had reached an agreement with Germany over the return of asylum seekers. The countries included are Portugal, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Finland, ...
Activists have discovered that the Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) department of the U.K., which is responsible for collecting taxes, has collected voice data on millions of people without due warning. The discovery was ...
On Sunday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was officially declared the winner in Turkey’s presidential election by earning more than 50 percent of the vote, putting him back in office again. The victory of Erdogan, backed by ...
After the 2010 reviews of allegations of historical sexual abuse, carried out by the Church of England, were called ‘incomplete’ and ‘botched’ a further independent report was commissioned and published last Friday. Campaigners criticized the ...
On Sunday, leaders of Germany, France, and other European Union (EU) states will hold a so-called mini-summit in Brussels to discuss migration issues that have divided the region. “I am convening an informal working meeting ...
As the anniversary of the Grenfell Tower passes, did the UK government do enough to help survivors and prevent more fires? The 14th of June marked a year since the fire in Grenfell Tower, London, ...
Macedonia has agreed to change its national name to resolve a decades-long dispute with neighboring Greece. The move will end a 27-year conflict with Greece over the name. Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and Greek ...
On Wednesday, the new Italian populist government, noted for its anti-immigration stance, defended its decision not to open its port to a refugee rescue boat carrying around 600 migrants, despite criticism from the European Union ...
Levels of child poverty in the U.K. are predicted to rise to new highs, with 5.2 million children expected to live in poverty by 2022 according to The Institute for Fiscal Studies (I.F.S.), a British thinktank. ...
In a national vote on Sunday, Switzerland rejected a proposal to radically change the way banks lend money and would have given the Swiss National Bank (S.N.B.) a monopoly power over creating money through bank loans. More ...
A search-and-rescue ship carrying 629 people was stuck for two days off-shore from Italy, where a new right-wing government leader has refused to allow the migrant rescue operation to take port. Matteo Salvini, newly elected ...
On Saturday, leaders of seven industrialized nations (Canada, France, the U.S., the U.K., Japan, Germany, and Italy) signed a joint statement vowing to overcome protectionism and curb trade barriers as the G7 summit held in ...
Bulgarian rose petals are being produced faster than the nation’s rose oil industry can sell then, causing a dramatic drop in price that has impacted farmers during the 2018 harvest. Flower farmers who sell products ...
On Friday, Giuseppe Conte was sworn in as Italy’s new prime minister, marking his first significant political foray as the leader of the country ’s first populist government. His inauguration ended a three-month political deadlock ...
The Hungarian government and Prime Minister Victor Orban have drafted a new law to combat migrant asylum-seekers moving into the EU and to criminalize the aide workers assisting them in Hungary. If passed in its ...
The Royal Wedding came and went on May 19th with lots of glamour and over 10 million people tuning in to watch on local television, but underneath the glamour simmered the issue of homelessness in ...
On Saturday, the Republic of Ireland voted to toss the prevailing abortion ban in a referendum that repealed Ireland’s Eighth Amendment. According to the official result, around 66 percent of voters voted for ending the abortion ...
The amount of people “sleeping rough” or homeless on U.K. streets has increased by 169% since 2010. As homelessness in the UK has grown so too has the number of people dying on the streets ...
In recent years, rape allegations are being taken more seriously, but are male victims and especially male prisoner rape victims being left behind? Through events such as the #NotOkay campaign that recently took over Twitter, ...
The European Commission (EC) will reactivate the “blocking statue” that bans companies and courts within the European Union (EU) bloc to abide by the U.S. sanctions on Iran. The blocking statute was designed in 1996 ...
Three Spanish firefighters returned to Greek courts this week, where they were acquitted from charges of human trafficking and smuggling across international borders. The three men, founding members of the Spanish Professional Emergency Aid Association ...
Basque separatist group ETA (an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, which roughly translates to Basque Country and Freedom) announced its full dissolution on Thursday, Spanish media outlets reported. The group started dismantling its organization after ...
Illegal border crossings into Turkey are increasing in a phenomenon known as ‘reverse flight’. In 2015 Angela Merkel, Germany’s Chancellor, declared “Yes, we can!” in reaction to the massive number of refugees, mainly from Syria, ...
Two unrelated demonstrations clashed on Sunday night when a group of far-right Greek militants charged a police barrier and attacked a group of asylum-seeking migrants in Mytilene, capital city of Lesvos island. Unprovoked, these attackers ...
The German government has pledged to accept more than 10,000 refugees from the Middle East and North Africa. The country’s acceptance of refugees is a commitment to resettling those considered particularly vulnerable. The European Union ...
Viktor Orban declared a landslide victory in Hungary’s election on last Sunday. The incumbent will lead the country for three consecutive terms. Less than a week later tens of thousands took to the streets in ...
As international tensions escalate and the balance of world peace seems to be at play, what is really happening in the Sergei Skripal poisoning? On March 4, former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the world not to play around with his country by revealing new military technology. On Tuesday, the incumbent leader introduced the latest development in Russian air defense, which reportedly can ...